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the the THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. TUESDAY. APRIL 1910. MARRIAGES AND DEATHS ADOPTION.

ADOPTION--Baby; one month male; full surrender. Apply Dr. MOOREHOUSE, Clinton and Pacific sts. DIED. Black, Frances G.

Murray, John F. Bolander, Mary E. Quinn, Ellen Boursaud, Alphonse Richrath, Peter J. Brown, Sophia C. Ruger, Theodore Corrigan, William Russell, Sarah F.

Dickie Sara E. Scully, Margaret Dougherty, Dora. Sparrow. Charles Hynes, Teresa. Stanley, Mabel A.

Le Cost, Rebecca Vanderveer, Jerome Lombard, Sarah L. Warner, Louisa Lowe, Irene Gibbons Westin, Emma C. George W. Whitney, Helen McMahon, Michael. BLACK--April 18, 1910, suddenly, at residence of her sister, Mrs.

Edward Mascord, 69 Montague st, FRANCES widow of J. W. Black, Cambridge, Mass. BOLANDER-On April 18, 1910, MARY ELEANOR, beloved wife of Frederick Bolander. Funeral services at late residence, 45 Hampton place, Wednesday, April 20, at 10:30 A.M.

terment private. Kindly omit flowers. BOURSAUD-Entered into rest, Monday, April 18. 1910, ALPHONSE BOURSAUD, beloved husband of Agnes Boursaud. Interment in Boston.

BROWN-On Saturday, April 16, SOPHIA C. BROWN, aged 64 years, loved wife of the late John P. Brown. at her late residence, 614 Fortyfifth st. Tuesday do evening.

Interment Wednesday 10 A.M. at a Greenwood Cemetery. CORRIGAN-On Monday, April 18, 1910, WILLIAM CORRIGAN, In his 71st year. Funeral services at his late residence, 353 Eleventh st, Wednesday, 1910, at 8 P.M. Interment Thursday, April 2 21, 1910, at 10 A.M.

DICKIE-On Sunday, April 17, 1910, EL ZABETH, widow of John Dickie. Funeral services at her late residence, 566 Macon st, Brooklyn, N. Tuesday. April 19, at 8 P.M. DOUGHERTY-On April 18.

1910, at 7:45 P.M., DORA DOUGHERTY. wife of Avery Dougherty. Services Wednesday evening, at 8 o'clock. at the residence of Mr. E.

Baker. Bay Thirty-fourth st. Bensonburst. HYNES-On April 18, 1910, TERESA, beloved wife of Michael Hynes, at her residence, 150 Hull st. Funeral Thursday.

April 21, at 9 A.M., thence to Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. Interment Calvary. LE -Suddenly, on Monday, April 18. 1910, REBECCA Le COST. beloved wife of the late Anthony Le Cost, in her 76th year.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, 117 Park av, on Thursday, April 21, at 9:30 A.M., thence the Sacred Heart Church, Clermont where a solemn requiem mass will be offered up the repose of her soul. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery. LOMBARD-On Tuesday, April 19, 1910, SARAH L. LOMBARD, widow of the late E. Lombard.

Funeral services at her late residence, 153 State st, on Friday, April 22, at 10:30 A.M. LOWE-On Saturday, April 16, 1910, IRENE GIBBONS, beloved wife of Fred Lowe and daughter of Lydia and the John W. Gibbons. Funeral services her late residence, 533 Decatur st, on Tuesday, April 19, at 8:30 P.M. LYNCH-On April 18.

1910, at his residence, 1166 St. John's place, GEORGE LYNCH, beloved husband of Sophia Lynch, in the 90th year of his age. Funeral services at 10 A.M.. Wednesday. (Ossining papers please copy.) MICHAEL McMAHON, A A A A beloved husband of McMAHON-On Monday, April 18, 1910, Barbara McMahon, in his 57th year.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited attend the funeral from his late resiA.M., thence to the Church of Our Lady dence, 763 a Macon st. on Thursday, at 9:30 of Good Counsel. Putnam av. MURRAY-On April 18, 1910, JOHN FRANCIS MURRAY, son of Michael Murray, captain of Engine Company No. 125, and of the late Matilda Hayes.

Funeral from 249 Cleveland st on Thursday, April Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. QUINN-On Monday, April 18, 1910, ELLEN, beloved wife of the late Patrick Quinn. Funeral from her late home, 209 Hopkinson Thursday. April 21, at 9:30 A.M.: thence to the Church of the Presentation, corner St. Mark's and Rockaway avs, where a solemn high mass requiem will be celebrated.

Funeral private. RICHRATH-On April 18, 1910, after 0 short illness, PETER J. RICHRATH. Services at his late residence, 281 President st, Brooklyn, Wednesday, at 8 P.M. Please omit flowers.

Interment at convenience of family. RUGER-On Monday, April 18, 1910. THEODORE RUGER, in the 74th year of age. Funeral services Thursday morning. April 21, at his late residence, 305 Sterling place, 10 o'clock.

Interment private. RUSSELL-On Tuesday, April 19, 1910, SARAH widow the late James W. Russell. Funeral service at the home of sister, Mrs. Annie M.

Greenwood, 435 East Twenty-first Flatbush, on Wednesday evening at 8'o'clock. SCULLY-Monday, April 18, 1910, MARGARET SCULLY. Funeral on Wednes2 P.M. from the home of her brother, 593 Park place. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.

SPARROW--In Ridgewood, on Monday, April 18, 1910, CHARLES beloved husband of E. Jennie Sparrow, aged 48 years. Relatives and friends are invited attend the funeral, on Thursday, April 1910. from his late residence, 240 East Ridgewood av, Ridgewood, N. at 2:30 P.M.

Carriages will meet train arriving at Ridgewood 2:05 P.M. Interment, Valleau. STANLEY--At Huntington, L. April 1910, MABEL beloved wife of Thomas Franklin Stanley, daughter of late Edw. Otto Sackmann.

Funeral services at the home of her sister. Mrs. W. Lyons, 433 Willard av. Woodhaven, Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock.

Interment, the Evergreens, VANDERVEER-Suddenly, on Sunday, April 17, 1910, JEROME DOMINICUS VANDERVEER. formerly of Woodhaven, the 51st year of his age. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services at late restdence, Merrick road, Rockville Centre, L. on Wednesday, April 20, at 2 P.M. WARNER-LOUISA WARNER.

Services The Funeral Church. 241 West Twentythird st, Frank E. Campbell Building. WESTIN-At Lakewood A N. on Sunday, April 17, 1910, EMMA C.

widow Charles F. and beloved mother of Mrs. William K. Knox and Clarence F. WesFuneral services at the residence of Theodore S.

Wolf, 1145 -fourth st, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, April 20. at 4 P.M. WHITNEY-On Sunday, April 17, 1910, HELEN A. WHITNEY, in her 78th year. Services at the residence of her daughMrs.

B. G. Ackerman, 914 President Brooklyn, on Wednesday evening. April 20, 8 o'clock. Interment Greenwood.

IN MEMORIAM. KNAPP-In sad and loving memory of my beloved husband. OSCAR KNAPP, who died April 19. 1907. KATE KNAPP (hee Schroeek).

SCHOEPF-In loving memory of JOSEPH U. SCHOEPE. died April 19. 1906. God called him home, it was his will, But in hearts he liveth still.

His memory is as dear to -day As he passed away. MOTHER, BROTHER AND SISTER. SCOTT--In loving memory of JOHN SCOTT, who died April 19, 1909. DIES SUDDENLY IN HOTEL. Stricken with apoplexy carly this morn.

ing, Mrs. John C. Aldrich, 37 years old. of Hartford, died suddenly in the Park Avenue Hotel, in Manbattan. Twa physicians worked over the woman, but Frey were unable to revive her.

NO TRACE OF LOST BOY; SLEUTHS ARE BAFFLED Mysterious Affair of Jerry Desmond Foils Brooklyn Police at Every Angle. RECALL CHARLIE ROSS CASE. Lad Has Been Away More Than a Week and Mother Is Distracted. The police and relatives of 10-year old Jerry Desmond of 69 Lawrence street, who has been missing for a week, are facing a blank wall in their efforts to locate the lost boy. Every expedient has been tried.

every possible clew has been followed without success. The boy's mother is losing hope. The police officials say they are doing everything possible, that halt a dozen men are working on the case and that every institution and other place of likely refuge for a boy has been searched. The case is as mysterious as that of little Charlie Ross. A week ago yesterday, a few minutes before 9, young Jerry shouted to his mother that he wanted his books in An awful hurry, because he was late for school.

She got them and he sprinted it down Lawrence street, headed towards St. James Parochial School, of which he is 8 member. One of his boy friends saw him running across McLaughlin Park just a few yards from the school, and then he dropped out of sight. The brothers of the school marked him absent that morning and be didn't come back home. No one has been found who is able to say definitely that be has seen him since.

The police of the Adams street etation were told of the lad's disappearance last Monday night, but they didn't bother much about it. expecting that the boy would turn up within a day or two. But when Jerry didn't come home and his parents kept going to the station house without getting much satisfaction, the strange case caught the attention of the newspapers, and after that the police took a more lively interest. Yesterday several plain clothes men from Headquarters in Menhattan, and also from the Adams street station called on Mrs. Desmond, and cross-examined her in an endeavor to get some clew that would lead to the recovery of the boy.

But nothing she said could help them. She told an Eagle reporter this morning that she never punished the boy; that he is quiet and fond of reading, and didn't knock about with who might lead him into evil ways. The boy's mother is much put out over the police theory that Jerry is a runaway lad, who is sure to turn up -ain sooner or later. She declares that he never ran away from home in his life. At first she was inclined to take stock in the suggestion that he had been kidnapped, but there isn't a single clew to substantiate this theory, and Mrs.

Desmond thinks that something would have turned up it the boy, had been stolen; some letter or other piece of evidence. All together it is a most unusual case. Most of the possible theories on which mysterious disappearances might be explained fall when they are applied to Jerry Desmond. Mental abberation, suicide, love affairs, discontent with home surroundings, financial troubles, which explain most "missing" cases where the lost are not found have no relation to this 10-year-old boy. 16-YEAR TERM FOR COLBURN Architect Staggers as He Hears Words of Judge.

Man Convicted of Atrocious Crime and Is Excoriated by Court as Public Menace. Shambling in walk and head drooping on his breast, Emerson Colburn, 43 years of age, the architect, recently convicted of an atrocious crime, staggered from the bar in front of Justice Blackmar, in Part of the Supreme Court, this morning, to be handcuffed to a sheriff and start for a sixteen-year term in Sing Sing. Before he turned from facing the judge, who sentenced him, he heard himselt mecilessly scored as a moral degenerate, a menace to the youth of any community and a center of corruption more dangerous than the bubonic plague. Colburn is who, with James Hagaman, an artist. indicted for murmanas der in the first degree, it being charged that both men were responsible for the death of young John Vickers on New Year's Day at the home of Colburn at 1055 Herkimer street.

Colburn was convicted by a jury some days ago and came up for sentence this morning. Hagaman is still to be tried. On the trial Assistant District Attorney Martin introduced evidence to show that Colburn had been convicted and had served a short tence for a crime similar to that with which he was charged this time. Colburn was represented by Lawyer Hector McG. Curran, who insisted that his client was guiltless.

25 NEW CITIZENS. Justice Putnam Admits Them at Riverhead-Judge Proves a Good German Scholar, (Special to The Eagle.) Riverhead, L. April 19-At the regular term of the Suffolk naturalization court here yesterday afternoon, Justice Putnam, presiding, about twentynew citizens wore made. It was the largest similar court since the new and drastic naturalization laws went into effect. Along with his other accomplishments Justice Putnam showed that he was! fairly well at home with the German tongue, for Adolph Nicoll of Greenport, was unable to grasp the meaning of a question put to him by the government's attorney as stated in English, so Justice Putnam asked.

"What is your native tongue." The applicant replied it was German, 60 Justice Putnam put three or four questions in that tongue. The questions had to deal with whether or not the applicant was a member of any society opposed to our form of government, and the witness replied in German that he was a member of no societies whatever. He was deficient in civil government, however. and his application had to be denied for the present. The list of those admitted included nearly all the known nationalities.

Fully many, little a8 were admitted were told to study more and come again. AVIATOR FELL SIXTY FEET. Doual. France, April 16-Louis Breguet, the French aviator, who fell with his aeroplane from a height of sixty feet yesterday, proves not to have been dang- MODERN IDEAS of health and hygiene demand that the undertaker have knowledge of sanitation. and the Health Department has recognized the same We have made a special study of DISINFECTING, and have all the paraphernalia necessary to do this important work property.

FAIRCHILD SONS, Tel. 3700 Prospect, FUNERAL DIRECTORS. ALL AMERICANS SAFE. Escaped to Hankow From ChangSha, Where Rioting Has Ended. Peking, April 19-The rioting of natives at Chang-Sha, the capital of Hunan, has ceased.

A new governor of the province is on his way to Chang-Sha and political complications as a result the attack upon the property of foreigners, are not likely to occur. The American Legation here believes that all of the Americans in the disturbed district escaped to Hankow and all reports to the contrary are generally discredited. The Japanese colony was the last to leave Chang-Sha. The Japanese Consulate was burned, but the British Consulate, situated outside the city, was not harmed. The damage caused by the rioters has not been computed as yet, but the total certainly will be large.

American property, however, has suffered but a small loss. STEAMER GYPSUM WRECKED Struck a Rock in Dense Fog in Harlem River. Captain and Crew Are Safe, but the Gypsum Will Probably Be a Complete Loss. While trying to enter the Harlem River in the dense fog, shortly before 6 o'clock this morning, the freight and towing steamer Gypsum struck a rock and was wrecked. No one was drowned or inJured, and the steamer is not a danger to navigation.

The Gypsum was loaded with plaster of paris, and in comand of Captaia George W. Gascone, its owner. It was extremely foggy at the time, and in trying to enter the river, the steamer WAS caught by the flood tide, went on a rock and was completely wrecked. About an hour after the Gypsum struck, Captain Gascone and a deck hand were taken off by 8 police launch of Harbor at the foot of East One Hundred and Twentieth street, and taken to the station, where they told how the wreck occurred. Two other deckhanda were left on the steamer and will be taken off later.

The Gypsum, the police report, is valued at $5,000, and the cargo at $1,000. NOT JOSEPH FONTANA'S WIFE. Personal Advertisement in the Eagle Not Inserted by Well-Known Real Estate Man. Similarity of name and initial in an advertisement in the Eagle led the friends of Joseph Fontana, the real estate operator of 563 Driggs avenue, to believe that he and his wife had separated. The advertisement, which appeared yesterday, read as follows: MY WIFE having left my bed and board.

will not be responsible for debts contracted by her. J. FONTANA. Very soon after this advertisement appeared, the real estate dealer was astonished by a sympathetic message from a friend. Then two or three of the New York newspapers called him up.

Mr. Fontana, in sheer desperation, rang up his wife on the telephone and had her personally convince some of her husband's more skeptical friends that she and he were still living happily together. "I really became so worried I couldn't sleep last night," Mr. Fontana said this morning. "Everybody appeared to take it for granted that I was the J.

Fontana of the advertisement." An inspection of the original advertisement this morning cleared up the mystery. The J. Fontana who inserted the advertisement Jacob Fontana of Whitelaw avenue, Woodhaven, L. between whom and the Brooklyn man there is not the remotest relationship. UNWITTINGLY SIGNS A WILL Brother of Dead Man Explains Odd Incident.

Witnesses to Instrument of Rich Traveling Man Tell of Placing Names to Instrument. The somewhat curious circumstances that attended the execution of the will of Charles Dean Baldwin, the traveling man, who died on November 2, 1909, and caused a contest when it was offered recently for probate, were taken into consideration to-day by Surrogate Ketcham, in a memorandum handed down admitting the will to probate. The will bequeaths a large estate almost in its entirety to the widow of the testator, Mrs. Helen Baldwin, of 794 St. John's place.

It was the claim of the mother, Mrs. Martha A. Baldwin, and of a brother of the testator, Frederick A. Baldwin, that the will was not properly executed and the testimony of the witnesses, Harry B. Baldwin, a brother of the testator, and Thomas F.

Johnston, showed that the usual procedure was departed from by Mr. Baldwin. The later, it was testified, asked his brother to witness his signature to a paper, not telling him at the moment that his will. After the document was witnessed, however, the two brothers went out and then the testator told the brother, that he had just witnessed a The other witness had the same experience. In his memorandum Surrogate Ketcham holds that the fact that the testator immediately after securing the signatures told the witnesses the character of the document they signed was sufficient to make it a valid will, and he orders its probate.

REGENTS EXAMINATIONS Date of June 9 Cannot Be Changed. (Speelal to the Eagle.) Albany, April 19-Senator Eugene M. Travis and Senator Thomas Cullen of Brooklyn to-day had a conference with State Superintendent of Education Dr. Andrew S. Draper over the coming regents examinations to be held in June.

According to the first announcement of the State Department of Education, the examinations in Brooklyn were to bu held on June 15. This was found to be Inadvisable, as 'une 15 is a Jewish festival, and all the students of the schools who are of the Hebrew faith would be unable to attend the examination. The commissioner then set Thursday, June 9, as the date for the examination. It was discovered that this is Anniversary Day, a school holiday, created 80 through the efforts of former Assemblyman Charles F. Murphy of Brooklyn.

Senator Travis, at the request of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union, protested to the commissioner of education against the date set. The commissioner assured him to-day that there had been no intention of interfering with Anniversary Day, but that it would now be practically impossible to change the date. The examination affects high school students only, and it is not thought that 80 many of these pupils will be affected 25 would be the CASO were the lower grades to take the examination. The hours of the examination will be limited to between 9 and 12 o'clock, and only those who are desirous of taking the examination will be required to attend school on that day. All will be dismissed at noon in time to take part in the anniversary services if they wish.

ONLY en JURORS SECURED IN WELZ PERJURY CASE Jury Box May Not Be Filled Until To-morrow or Even Thursday. FLUSHING COURT IS CROWDED. Politicians of High and Low Degree There -Great Array of Counsel in Case. Two more jurors were obtained today for the trial of John Welz, the Brooklyn brewer, on a charge of perjury. Those chosen to-day, up to the noon recess.

are Jacob J. Becker, a printer, of 1421 Onderdonk avenue, Wyckoff Heights, and Frederick Hoffman, real estate, of 783 Ely avenue, Long Island City. Hoffman was chosen despite the fact that during the examination he expressed opinion that too much was paid for the Kissena Park site. The work of selecting jurors proceeds very slowly, and it is not expected that the remaining seven will be chosen before some time to-morrow. The court room is crowded and many politicians of prominence are present.

The jurors already sworn, in addition to Becker and Hoffman, area. Benjamin Merkler, a clerk, of Greene avenue, Wyckoff Heights; Henry Schuebel, roofer, residing on Greene avenue, Ridgewood Heights, and Edward Clifford, an engineer, employed in the Clinton Paint Works at College Point and residing at 165 Barclay street, Flushing. According to Justice Clark's instructions, the three jurymen were kept together and housed for the night at Garrison's Hotel, at Auburndale, in the outskirts of Flushing. It is a Justice Clark's intention to forbid the jurors to leave the custody of the court officers until the trial is over and their verdict has been rendered. The decision to lock up the jury caused much objection on the part of prospective jurors, who are plainly not anxious to be chosen to serve.

Justice Clark has evidently decided not to take any chances of having a mistrial, and he insists on observing all the technicalities of the law. Before he would permit the three jurors to leave their seats last night he called upon. Clerk John D. Pease to have the court officers publicly sworn that they would not permit the jurors to leave their custody 'or converse with any one on the subject of the el trial. During the afternoon session Deputy Sheriff Phillips requested Justice Clark to permit the sheriff to swear in twentyfour deputies to serve during the trial, but Justice Clark intimated that he did not think it necessary, particularly at the present time.

Even in the murder trials of the Hains brothers there. were not half as many lawyers represented in the case on trial as there are in Welz's case. For the state are the following: Deputy State Attorney General Jacob Frank, Deputy State Attor. ney Henry B. Ketchum and several assistants, District Attorney Frederick G.

De Witt and Assistant District Attorney Denis O'Leary. For the defense appear ex-Congressman Thomas F. Magner, his partner, Thomas F. Carew, and former Municipal Court Justice William Rasquin, jr. Lawyer George L.

Glaser, who is also under indictment in connection with the Kissena Park investigation, and his attorney, Clarence Edwards, are also most of the time in court. Former Borough President Joseph Bermel, who is said to be a close personal friend of the defendant, Welz, was in court all yesterday and held several consultations with Judge Rasquin, one of Welz's attorneys. Congressman William Willetts. and Nathan Vidaver, who as a special deputy attorney general, conducted the Kissena Park investigation, were also among those present yesterday and to-day. Mr.

Vidaver has had troubles of his own since he was in Queens acting as a special deputy attorney general, and did not seem to be in a happy frame of mind when in court last night. Deputy State Attorney Jacob Frank has SO far done all the examining of talesmen, and he has been very particular to learn if they are acquainted with any city, state or United States officials, with Thomas F. Byrnes, former real estate expert in ex-Controller Metz's office; George W. Pople, president of the Flushing Business Men's Association; Herman Ringe, Cornelius Burke, the Hicks- Johnson Company, Jacob Haubiel, Frederick G. Randall or any of the officers of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company or the Corn Exchange Bank.

Mr. Frank said he expects to produce about thirty witnesses. Welz got himself in trouble when he appeared before the Special Grand Jury, February, 1908, and presented two asin signments of mortgages in which it is claimed the dates have been changed. His friends claim that he was attempting to protect the interests of a certain man in Queens. who at the time held a high public office When former Borough President Bermel was called before the Special Grand Jury he refused to testify on the grounds that his answers might incriminate or degrade him.

Just after that Mr. Bermel resigned as borough president and sailed for Europe. DESERTED WIFE A DETECTIVE Mrs. Kate Petelli Sought Husband in Many Cities. Disguised, She Visited Barber Shops and Found Petelli at Work in Mulberry Street, Manhattan.

Mrs. Kate Petelli's search covering a period of two months and extending to several of the larger cities in this section of the country, ended successfully this morning, when she had her husband, Joseph, arraigned in the Tombs court, in Manhattan, before Magistrate Barlow, on a charge of abandonment. Mrs. Petelli is 22 years old and her home is in Philadelphia. Mrs.

Petelli swears that her husband abandoned her and her two children -one 17 months and the other 2 months old-. two montha ago. When he disappeared she complained tO the Philadelphia authorities and an indictment for abandonment followed. The police of that city were unable 10 locate Petelli and Mrs. Petelli took up the search.

She visited Boston, Newark, Paterson and other cities. but could find no trace of her missing spouse. She then decided to come to this city, and arrived at the home of an uncle at 128 Mulberry street, Manhattan, a few days ago. Her husband is a barber and as soon as she arrived the wife began a systematic search of the shops. Her search was rewarded when she saw him working in the shop at 177 Mulberry street, but a few doors from where she was stopping.

The wife wore a heavy black veil, so that her husband would not recognize her and take fight again. When she was sure she had located her husband Mrs. Petelll had him arrested. Petelli was held for the Philadelphia police in $1,000 bail. He was unable to furnish this amount and was remanded to the Tombs.

ARRESTED AFTER A FIRE. Following an investigation into a Are early this morning. which did only trifling damage to the grocery store Samuel Kaner, at. 1298 Avenue Manhattan, Kaner arrested on the of being implicated in setting fire to his place. A BULLETS HAVE NO TERROR FOR MIDNIGHT PROWLER This Leads Blythebourne Folk to Believe They Are Dealing With a Spook.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD AROUSED. Resident With Revolver Blazes Away Into Cellar, Then Enters to Find Nothing. An armed man or a very troublesome spook has been prowling about the Blythebourne section of Borough Park for the past fortnight, and most of tenants of a row of four adjoining two1264 and -sixth street have been family brick, houses, numbered 1260, 1262, In a state of mind bordering on terror. Whether a real flesh-and-blood man with a revolver has been hanging about in the section, as some of the tenants are willing to swear to, or whether these tenants all have high-strung imaginations which they will not confess to possessing, 1s not certain, but, man or spook, he attacked by one of the dwellers, who was armed, about two weeks ago, and the whole neighborhood was aroused the popping of revolver shots. Several of the bullets whizzed by the head of Bernard Miller, who was standing in the gateway of his home, at 1267 Fifty, sixth street, diagonally across the street from the row of brick structures.

Louts Moore, a tenant at No. 1262, the: young man who fired the shots, does not admit that his pistol was aimed so that the bits of lead would travel in the direction of the Miller home across street, but bullets nevertheless went in that direction, according to Miller, at whose home it was stated last night that positively at least three of them passed over Miller's head. Moore says he fired no more than two shots at the most. The locality is just at the edge of the One Hundred and Forty-third precinctthe Fourth avenue station--and the police a have away vestigated, in been for their of keeping course, records. the for after they They details, the were have hidden shoot- tele- inphoned immediately ing.

Two uniformed men appeared in response to the telephone call--the man on post and another man from the tion house. They questioned the tenant and made their reports at the precinct house. Meanwhile the spook, or man it it be a man, has continued to prowl, and children in the neighborhood lie awake nightly. Alderman John Meagher's home is two doors away from the row of brick houses, and the Alderman said last that his children are some of those whi fear the prowler each night. Just when the spook or man first began to make his presence known is not certain.

At No. 1260 live Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fox. Mr.

Fox is a hardware salesman, at home on crutches now because of blood poisoning. He thinks he in the bushes in his rear yard on sevhas seen the prowler quite frequently, eral occasions. The Moores, at 1262, seem to be about the only skeptics in the row. Mrs. Brooks, an elderly woman living at 1264, is as certain as any one that there has been a prowler about.

But more certain than any other tenant Robert Smith, a young man who sometimes takes care of his brother's children, at 1266, while his brother, a singer, away at night in Manhattan, where he is employed in a theater. Young Smith thought he saw a man with a revolver in one hand hiding behind a tree one night and later he was sure he heard some person scuffling about in the cellar, at No. 1266. With white face he appeared at the Moore home, two doors away, and Alfred and Louis Moore, two of the sons, accompanied young Smith back to No. 1266.

Young Smith handed a revolver he carried over to Louis Moore, who raised the weapon and fired twice into the cellar. Miller, standing in the gateway across the street, says more than two shots were fired, and other neighbors last night thought So, too. Miller ducked his head when the bullets rustled through the tree branches and continued between two frame houses. After the shooting the noises in the cellar ceased abruptly. The young man, revolver still in hand, lighted a match and plunged daringly into the cellar, the light above his head; and he would have been a fair target for any armed person who might have been hiding there.

A thorough search did not reveal man spook, nor was there any visible sign that either had been there. Yet no one can convince half the tenants in the row houses that something either wrong supernatural hasn't been going on in Bythebourne, which is pretty well wrought up over the matter. TO FEDERATE CIVIC BODIES Flushing Builder Would Unite Those of Entire City. At the meeting last night of the Flushing Association George S. Appleton, a prominent builder, revived his plan to federate the civic bodies of the entire city for the purpose of purifying, improving and making more efficient the 1o- cal government.

The idea was first broached a year ago and referred to a committee. That committee commended the project very highly, but stated that it was a task entirely too large for any committee, and asked to be excused. In his presentation of the subject last evening Mr. Appleton said he is so much in earnest and is so confident of good results, that he will guarantee all expenses for disbursements and for labor necessary to enter upon a campaign of correspondence to ascertain the sentiment of the hundreds of other civic organizations. William B.

Parsons, counsel to the association, was named as one of a committee to work with Mr. Appleton in the preliminary movement. DR. LAWS' LECTURE. The Rev.

Dr. Curtis Lee Laws, pastor of the Greene Avenue Baptist Church, will to -morrow evening, under the auspices of the Men's League of the church, deliver his noted lecture, "'The Yellowstone Park and the Great Northwest." There will 175 beautiful views. The admission will be free, but strictly by ticket. EASTERN STAR MEETING. Flatbush Chapter No.

177, 0. E. will hold its regular meeting next Wednesday evening, when the obligation ceremony as given exclusively by the members of this chapter will be the work of the evening. Certificates of honorary memtime is expected. A cordial invitation bership will also be given a and A good 18 extended to members of the order and Master Masons.

POSTMASTERS CONVENTION. The New York State Association of Postmasters will hold their fifth convention to -morrow and- Thursday at the Republican Club, 54 West Fortieth street. Manhattan. Thursday evening a banquet will be held. HAS QUARREL; SEEKS DEATH.

Because he had quarreled with his wife. John La Bua, 24 years old. of 63 Atlantic avenue, attempted suicide last evening by taking poison. He was at- i tended by Dr. Knoller of the Long 18- land College Hospital and was removed to that institution, a prisoner.

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MISS JONES DEARIE CHALLENGES. Brooklyn Horseman Would Pit Elwood D. Against Jotah for a $500 Side Bet. OWNERS CANNOT DRIVE. Race to Be Three Out of Five Heats on the Speedway.

As a result of the controversy following the trotting race for the Sloane Trophy, on the Brooklyn speedway last Saturday, Dr. John H. Jones, owner of the bay pacer Elwood has challenged Miss Dearie McKeeker, owner of the gray mare Jotah, for $500 a side, best three out of five heats, the event to be trotted on the speedway five weeks from yesterday. The orly other stipulation Dr. Jones makes is that the horses shall not be driven by their owners.

It will be remembered that the men drivers tried to force Miss McKeever, daughter of former Alderman McKeever, driver of Jotah, out of the race some days before it was trotted. Miss MeKeever, however, remained firm in her intention to start, and the matter was dropped. It was admitted by Miss McKeever that a representative of the men drivers called upon her at her house, but that she did not think any one man was responsible for the messenger being sent. Later Miss McKeever quoted as saying that Dr. Jones had sent the party, fearing that her mare would beat Elwood D.

Last night an Eagle reporter called on Dr. Jones, and the latter was highly indignant at the allegations. Dr. Jones said: "I wish to tell the trotting people of Brooklyn, through The Eagle, that there is absolutely not one grain of truth in a statement that I was afraid of any horse. I do not know whether Miss McKeever made such a statement; in fact, I really think she did not.

I wish to deny that I ever had anything to do with the opposition toward Jotah competing in the cup race. I never sent any messenger to her, and had absolutely no interest in keeping any one out of the event. "My sole reason for not entering Elwood D. in the Sloane Trophy race was that I considered him unfit for a brushing contest after his performance on the speedway on Wednesday. On that day my horse, driven by Reuben W.

Smith, established a record for the half mile stretch, going the distance in Under the conditions I did not think he had recov- I ered sufficiently and was therefore not fit to race for the cup. I wish also to deny that I told Joseph T. Carboy that professionals should not be allowed, and because they were I withdrew my gelding. show that the stand I took in keeping Elwood D. out of the race is a proper one, challenge the owner of the gray mare Jotah to a match race with Elwood D.

for $500 a side, best three heats out of five, on the regulation halfmile stretch of the Ocean Parkway speedway. The only conditions that must be abided by are that neither owner shall drive, and that the race takes place about five weeks from to-day. I will deposit $500 with any reputable sporting man, and I will post my forfeit ten days from now. By that time I should hear from the other side." Dr. Jones stated that a distant date for the race was necessary in order that the horses may be brought into the proper condition for the contest.

The side bet is sufficiently high, he claimed, to warrant this also. The owner of Elwood D. said that it his forfeit was covered within the time specified he would withdraw the bay pacer from all brushes on the speedway until the contest had been decided. Neither Miss Dearie McKeever nor her representatives could be seen last night, SO it is not known just what the owner of Jotah will do toward covering the forfeit of Dr. Jones.

Miss McKeever has more than a week in which to make a decision, and it is to be assumed that the matter will be duly considered before anything definite is announced. That trotting enthusiasts will welcome an afrmative decision from her there can be no doubt, for with Elwood capable of for the route, and the little gray mare's performance in 1:04 and better, a keen competition would result. very A POSITIVE OPINION. the Washington "Some people say the comet is largely gas and some it's electricity," said the amateur scientist. "It's neither." replied Mr.

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